A little history of Pont la Feuillée
And also
The tops
The bridge |
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The first bridge dates back to 1831. Then during 1840’s water floods, it was badly damaged and they had to restore it one year later.
In 1910, they reraised a metal bridge... where a boat ran into it in 1936! The new construction didn’t last long.
German troops destroyed arches in 1944.
6 years later, a new plan was born: finally! Our current bridge...
It was named after an old tradition: in the past, feuillées referred to huts made of branches, recovered by leaves (feuilles in french), where fishermen and boatmen lived.